Born in Northampton, Mark began his formal musical training at Chethams's School of Music with Gordon Cross key. He then went on to study with Michael Lewin as a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music, from where he graduated in 1993 with first class honours and awards from the Principal. During the following few years Mark completed his studies in Spain with guitarist David Russell, thanks to a number of bursaries.
Early on in his performing career Mark became a laureate of several major national and international competitions including Radio Two's Young Musician, the Julian Bream Prize, the Guitar Foundation of America and the Alessandria International Guitar competition, Italy. After winning the Radio 2 Competition Mark's career really took off performing regular live recitals on the BBC as a soloist and with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He was also given his own hour-long showcase programme, broadcast live on the radio.
He has performed at many of the UK's most prestigious music venues, including the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, Fairfield Halls, Bridgewater Hall Manchester and the Sage-Gateshead. Performances have also taken him to France, Spain, Italy, Finland, Holland,Sweden, Hungary, Germany, Poland, U.S.A, Cuba and Barbados. As a concert soloist Mark has performed with many leading orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, London Concertante and the Turin Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of such eminent conductors as Carl Davis,Christopher Warren-Green, Barry Wordsworth and Ignacio Yepes.
Mark has recorded seven CD's including a recording of Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Cleobury. This led to a most successful promotion tour around the UK with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His latest CD is with the Vida Guitar Quartet (Mark Eden, Helen Sanderson and Chris Stell) entitled 'Rapsody' features their own arrangements of iconic Orchestral music by George Gershwin, Malcolm Arnold and Adam Gorb.
He was course director at the international guitar Festival-Bath for six years and regularly gives masterclasses at International Festivals and the leading Conservatoires of Music. He is currently head of guitar at the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music and in 2003 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music having achieved distinction in the music profession.